Adele Parks on her childhood and the debt of gratitude she owes her teachers

Author Adele Parks moved to Guildford from London 12 years ago to replicate her idyllic, chaotic, home-spun childhood on Teesside. She’s written 16 books in 16 years; sold 3m copies and is published in 26 countries. Her books – including The State We’re In and The Other Woman’s Shoes – have been borrowed more than 1.5m times from Britain’s public libraries - which delights Adele, since she spent a large proportion of her early years in them

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